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'There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims . . . Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class, shame in relation to the milieu in which I grew up, why, when once I had arrived in Paris and started meeting people from such different class backgrounds, I would often find myself lying about my class origins... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?' Returning to Reimsis a breath-taking memoir of return, a family story of class, sexuality, gender and of the shifting political allegiances of the French working classes. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times. Translated by Michael Lucey.
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Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Returning to Reims
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Didier Eribon
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 024134462X
- ISBN13
- 9780241344620
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Biographies, Self-Help, Political Science & Politics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Family, Politics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, France, Parenting, LGBTQ+, Gifts for grandpa, Sociology, Society, French Literature, Memories, Parenthood, Adapted for Film, Paris, Genealogy, Homosexuality, Father, Freedom
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Retour à Reims
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- 'There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims . . . Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class, shame in relation to the milieu in which I grew up, why, when once I had arrived in Paris and started meeting people from such different class backgrounds, I would often find myself lying about my class origins... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?' Returning to Reimsis a breath-taking memoir of return, a family story of class, sexuality, gender and of the shifting political allegiances of the French working classes. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times. Translated by Michael Lucey.